OVERVIEW
This course is designed to help support your individual skill set in treating trauma and trauma
responses as it ties to your worldview and counseling identity. As doctoral students, it is vital
that your approach to treating clients who have suffered trauma and teaching trauma treatment
modalities to other professionals reflects the current evidence base in the field of counseling.
The Reflection Journal assignments are intended to help you synthesize the reading you are
doing in the course in a way that offers you the freedom to explore the topics as they relate to
your own personal theory of counseling and how the learning will impact your work with clients
who have suffered trauma. The Reflection Journals should be written in APA formatting and
include a scholarly review of what you have read that specifically is impacting your
conceptualization of trauma and the treatment of trauma and trauma responses in clients.

INSTRUCTIONS
After you read your texts and review your online materials for the assigned Modules: Weeks,
you will write a journal entry that answers the questions posed in the Reflection Journal
Template.
? Each Reflection Journal Assignment should be 3 to 5 pages in length
o Not including title page or references section
? Please follow current APA format including Running Head, Title Page, Introduction,
Conclusion, APA style paragraphs and writing, references, and transitions
throughout.
? There is no specific number of citations required, but APA format should be carefully
adhered to with a focus on using a reference to scholarly sources throughout.
? Acceptable sources for this assignment include course learning, articles or
publications from traumatology experts, Christian counseling authors, biblical
scholars, and other scholarly publications. Sources from outside the course should be
no more than 5 years since publication.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
REFLECTION JOURNAL TEMPLATE
Please answer the following for each Reflection Journal Assignment:
(a) What 3 key ideas have you gained from the Modules: Weeks’ materials since your last
Reflection Journal, and why are these ideas important?
(b) What Christian worldview integration research or scholarly perspective from biblical or
Christian counseling experts relate to what you have learned from the course material?

Reflection Journal 3
Modules 7 – 8: Weeks 7 – 8
For Modules 5 – 8: Weeks 5 – 8, you will continue with the assigned readings on the Course
Schedule and read the information in each module in addition to the Christian Worldview
Resources folder. You can continue to discuss how the main theory of the 3, Prolonged Exposure
Cognitive Processing Therapy, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing relate to the
learning in Modules 5 – 8: Weeks 5 – 8, or you may focus exclusively on the new content you
are learning in these modules. Here, the goal is for you to learn in-depth about the modalities you
are most interested in and synthesize the learning to tie into the final project in which you will
discuss how the learning in the course regarding the major and evidence based theories in
treating trauma and how these might fit with your current theory of counseling.
Module 8 readings and videos: